1898 South Pasadena Ostrich Farm Article & Photos

This is an original illustrated magazine article that has been carefully extracted from an 1898 issue of Metropolitan Magazine.

Photos include:

ï A California Ostrich Farm
ï The youngest of the brood
ï Plucking the Plumes for Market
ï A Challenge to Fight from an Unwise Attendant
ï The Flock taking it's morning exercise
ï It will be noted that the attendants take no liberties even when feeding their charges, and that a fence always intervenes
ï This picture gives one an adequate idea of the size of the feathered giants

Title: "A Domesticated Oriental" by Ralph E. Bicknell

Subtitle: A Day Upon an American Ostrich Farm (this one being the South Pasadena Ostrich Farm, a branch of the Norwalk Farm).

Length (includes front & back): 5 pages

Approximate Page Size (in inches): 6 x 9

Condition: Excellent (the atticpaper watermark does not appear on the actual article)